Have you ever wondered why HR Departments continue to make so many processes complex? In reality, all of us wants things to be simple. But when you look at … Read more

Have you ever wondered why HR Departments continue to make so many processes complex? In reality, all of us wants things to be simple. But when you look at … Read more
All over the news in the U.S. is a story about a cheating scandal in the Atlanta Public Schools. My understanding of the situation is that some teachers … Read more
Building a house, a building, or a department all starts out with a plan. Many of us, however, don’t heed those textbook ideas of how we should start. … Read more
By Roger Schwarz Effective leaders want productive relationships inside and outside their team. Effective teams improve the way they work together over … Read more
Second of two parts I once had a client – a large commercial bank – whose managers were fond of urging employees to “run it like you own it.” Employees … Read more
HR ladies secretly love to write performance improvement plans. Let’s face it — performance problems are exciting. No matter how it ends, HR looks like it … Read more
First of two parts As human resource people see it, entitlement is organizational tuberculosis, a wasting disease that saps energy from the enterprise. … Read more
Harvard Business School recently issued a new business case study on The LEGO Group, makers of the famous toy plastic building blocks. I’m sure most of us … Read more
I hear from talent acquisition leaders that they want a seat at the table. I ask: “What does that mean to you?” For an individual recruiter, it’s building … Read more
The business world is full of managers. Even in the face of recent economic-fueled cutbacks and downsizing, managers remain in abundant supply. Yet despite … Read more